Ph. D., English, University of California, Los Angeles (September 1998)
A.B., Princeton University (1991)

Teaching and Research Interests
Modern Drama (history and genre theory)
Modern Irish Literature
20th Century British Literature, Postcolonial Studies

Teaching:

University of West Georgia, English and Philosophy Department
(Asst. Professor, August 2000-June 2005; Assoc. Professor, July 2005-present)
Courses: English 1101/1102 (First Year Composition), English 2110/2110H (World Literature Survey), English 2120H (British Literature Survey), English 2300 (Practical Criticism), XIDS 2100 (Arts and Ideas: The Social Meanings of Comedy), English 4/5106 (Studies in Genre: Drama), English 4/5155 (Twentieth Century British Literature), English 4/5180 (Studies in Regional Literature: Modern Irish Literature), English 4/5188 (Individual Authors: James Joyce), English 4/5188 (Individual Authors: Seamus Heaney), English 4/5188 (Individual Authors: Shakespeare), English 4384 (Senior Seminar: Ritual Realities), English 6115 (Staging the Nation: Theater and Modern Irish Identity), English 6115 (Violence In/To Form: British Literature Since World War II), English 6100/6385 (Studies in Genre: Tragic Drama and Modern Consciousness)

European Council Summer Program in Germany
June-July 2004, June-July 2005
Courses: English 2110 (World Literature: The Pleasures and Perils of Wanderlust), English 4/5385 (Special Topics: Actors and Madmen [Literature, Absurdity and Modern German History])

Publications:

"Breaking Bodies: The Presence of Violence on Martin McDonagh's Stage," Martin McDonagh: A Casebook, ed. Richard Russell (Routledge, 2007)

“Dead Center: Tragedy and the Reanimated Body in Marina Carr's The Mai and Portia Coughlan," Modern Drama 49.1 (Spring 2006): 41-59.

"The Strangers in Her House: Staging a Living Space for Northern Ireland," New Hibernia Review 7:3 (Autumn 2003): 106-126.

"'What Sort of Monsters Must We Have Been': Irishness and the Gothic in McDonagh, Carr and McPherson," Nation and Identity in Twentieth-Century Irish Drama, ed. Scott Boltwood (forthcoming, Colin Smythe, Ltd.)

“'A Gesture to Indicate a Presence': Translation, Dialect and Field Day’s Quest for an Irish Identity,” Changing the Terms: Translating in the Postcolonial Era, edited by Sherry Simon and Paul St-Pierre (Ottowa: University of Ottowa Press, December 2000)

“A Spindle for the Battle: Feminism, Myth and the Woman-Nation in Irish Revival Drama,” Theatre Journal 51.1 (March 1999)

Conference Presentations and Participation:

"When Big Daddy Goes Bad: Marina Carr's Patriarchs and the Decay of Community": National ACIS Meeting, Davenport, IA, April 2008 (upcoming)

"Dressing Up, Striking Out: Brides, Ballgowns and Transgressive Femininity in the Work of Marina Carr": SAMLA, Atlanta, GA, November 2007

"Portia in Pittsburgh, or Does Marina Carr Write Irish Plays?": National ACIS Meeting, CUNY Graduate Center, April 2007

"All Day Synge-Along: Exporting Irish Theater for a Postnational Moment": 16th Annual British Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies Conference, Georgia Southern University (Savannah, GA), February 2007

"Breaking Bodies: Towards a Theory of Violence in The Lieutenant of Inishmore": National ACIS Meeting, University of Missouri-St. Louis, April 2006

Chair, Contemporary Irish Literature Panel, Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, October 2004

Panel Chair (papers by UWG English graduate students), West Virginia Colloquium on Literature and Film, sponsored by West
   Virginia University, September 2004

"Marie Jones' Irish Extras: Comedy, Nationality and Real Bodies in Revolt": Southern ACIS, Emory University, March 2004

"Myselves Alone: Theatrical Monologue and the Problem of Contemporary Irishness": Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, October 2003

"The Meaning of Medea's Escape: The 'Journey' of Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats": Women in Motion Conference, Mount Allison University (Canada), May 2003

"Metamorphosing the Colonized Image: Screen Bodies and Stage Bodies in Marie Jones' Stones in His Pockets": 12th Annual British Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies Conference, Georgia Southern University (Savannah, GA), February 2003

"Rural Ruin and Ghostly Voices: Gothic Drama and Modern Irish Identity": National ACIS Meeting, Marquette University, June 2002

"Another Irish Antigone: Rural Ireland, Feminine Dependence and the Tragedy of Marina Carr's Portia Coughlan": Southern Regional ACIS Meeting, Young Harris College, February 2002

"Murmuring Name Upon Name: Theater, Remembrance and Post-Colonial Identity in Northern Ireland": SAMLA, Atlanta, GA  November 2001

"Lamenting the Dead: Ritual and Reconciliation in Northern Irish Drama": Midwestern Regional ACIS Meeting, Creighton University, October 2001

"Nonlinear Revelation and Marina Carr's Feminist Idea of Tragedy": Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 2001

“Beyond the Green Carnation: Homosexuality and Nationalism on the Contemporary Irish Stage”: Queer Nationalities/Local Homosexualities, CUNY Graduate School Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, April 1998

“Challenging the Irish Revival: Female Playwrights and the Myth of the Feminine Nation”: MLA Convention, Toronto, Women Figures in Transition  in Postcolonial Literatures Panel, December 1997

“‘The Whistles of this Aul Slate’: Brian Friel’s Translations and Field Day’s Language Question”: Postcolonial Translations: Changing the Terms of Cultural Transmission, Université de Montréal/Concordia University, May 1997

“Giving Birth to Her Selves: Motherhood, Work, and Identities in Margaret Oliphant’s Autobiography”: The Dickens Project Winter Conference,University of California, Riverside, February 1998

“Brian Friel’s Translations and the Politics of Dialect”: Southland Graduate Conference, UCLA, April 1997

Reviews:

Two Irelands: Literary Feminisms North and South, Rebecca Pelan, H-Albion, H-Net Reviews (March 2007).

Riotous Performances: The Struggle for Hegemony in the Irish Theater 1712-1784, Helen M. Burke, Theater Research International 29.3

Professional Memberships:
American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS), International Association for the Study of Irish Literature (IASIL), Modern Language Association (MLA)